TSI2929 – Managing Hitachi Ops Center Administrator

Course Information

Gain practical experience and learn the best practices for managing your storage effectively!

This intermediate course provides information on the administration and provisioning tasks using Hitachi Ops Center Administrator. These tasks include storage setup and configuration (onboarding and discovering storage), creating parity groups, pools, volumes, LUNs, and managing and creating Volume Migration and Protection. The course also walks through how to manage and monitor storage from the Hitachi Ops Center Administrator Dashboard.

Lab activities are included to provide hands-on practice on administering and provisioning using Hitachi Ops Center Administrator.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Architect
• Field Engineer
• Storage Administrator

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Basic knowledge of management software
• Basic understanding of block storage
• RAID storage systems and their basic functions
• Pool creation and management
• Volume creation and management
• Parity group creation and management

FOLLOW-ON COURSES

• Managing Performance with Ops Center Analyzer – TXI3684
• Managing Data Protection with Hitachi Ops Center Protector – TSI2995
• Managing Hitachi Ops Center Automator – TSI2690

LEARNING PATH

• Hitachi Ops Center

DIGITAL BADGE

At the successful completion of this course, you will receive the Hitachi Ops Center Administration Management digital badge.

CERTIFICATION

If you are interested in pursuing a certification or qualification, this course prepares you for the following Hitachi Vantara Qualified Professional qualification test:

• Hitachi Vantara Qualified Professional – Ops Center Administration (HQT-6741)

Depending on the location and course delivery format, this closed-book, proctored qualification test may be offered and administered by the instructor at the conclusion of this course, using the Kryterion Webassessor system. It is also available online (online proctored) and at Kryterion testing centers (onsite proctored).

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Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Give a brief overview of the Hitachi storage systems
• Describe a Hitachi Ops Center Administrator installation and upgrades
• Use the Hitachi Ops Center Administrator Dashboard to add storage systems
• Explain how to create parity groups, pools, and volumes
• Describe the host operations by attaching volumes, running workflow and settings storage system ports attributes
• Use Hitachi Ops Center Administrator Dashboard for cloning and snapshot to protect a volume. And describe High Availability feature
• Explain how to discover storage systems, servers, and fabric switches
• Describe the concepts of migration and the use of command line interface (CLI) methods, both CCI and REST API
• Describe multipathing concepts including the Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) feature and Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager (HDLM) and Hitachi Global Link Manager (HGLM) software
• Explain the Virtual Storage Machine (VSM) concept and its applications
• Describe what is Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR) and list its benefits
• Monitor capacity utilization and hardware resources
• Perform backup, restore, and upgrade procedures

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